Mendez-Santos, Maria
Zhu, Yunxiao
Alloosh, Mouhamad
Duan, Chongwen
van den Berg, Marilene
Sturek, Michael
Ameer, Guillermo A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6023-048X
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (5R01DK131302-02)
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (T32-EB031527)
Article History
Received: 14 November 2024
Revised: 21 April 2025
Accepted: 13 May 2025
First Online: 25 June 2025
Declarations
: The animals were held in compliance with the standards of the current version of the Animal Welfare Act and all the experimental procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Northwestern University (protocol IS00004924) and animal work was performed at the Center for Comprehensive Medicine at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL).
: Approval was obtained from the ethics committee of Northwestern University for the human skin sample provided by Northwestern University’s Skin Biology & Diseases Resource-Based Center of the National Institutes of Health. The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. The donor had signed an informed consent which was approved by the Institutional Research/Human Ethics Committee No. from the IRB ID# STU00009443.
: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study.
: Maria Mendez-Santos, Yunxiao Zhu, Chongwen Duan, Marilene van den Berg, and Guillermo A. Ameer declare they have no financial interests. Mouhamad Alloosh and Michael Sturek are cofounders of CorVus Biomedical.
: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author affirms that human and animal rights were upheld in the study.